A PALE CELADON JADE DRAGON-FORM PENDANT

MID-WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-300 BC

Details

A PALE CELADON JADE DRAGON-FORM PENDANT
MID-WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-300 BC
The pendant is carved as a sinuous single-horned dragon with backward-turned head and bi-furcated tail. Both sides are carved with comma spirals with a suspension hole to the centre.
5 3⁄16 in. (13.1 cm.) long, box

Provenance

The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1989

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Lot Essay

Compare with a larger and elaborately carved dragon-form pendant from the same period, with a similar single horn, backturning head, and a bi-furcated tail, excavated from subordinate tomb no. 1 at the King of Zhongshan tomb site in Pingshan County, Hebei Province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, no. 215 (fig. 1).

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